Joplin Missouri Tornado footage comparison of St. John's Hospital

[kgracielu2005]

what hunkering down is!!!!!!!!!!!!! if i stayed in the closet i started out in I would be DEAD,, the minute the ceiling started fallin on my head i just got out of that closet not knowing where i

[leeshelton11]

Really cool way to help Joplin!! If you like the smithmonitoring facebook page they will donate $.50 to the relief efforts in Joplin!! Like this and go like the smith monitoring facebook page and like it to be part of the solution!!

[beckluvs2crop]

This one left its marks. Shingles driven through trees and 2x4's. Shards of wood driven into the grounds around the HS.

[Walkden09]

Tornados are Awesome!

[Lcseers]

Cheers for posting, I have relatives in east 15th street, their ok, but I can't imagine the damage.

[tiburcio9999]

damn nature YOUR SCARY

[smalltowngirl2881]

Thank you so much for the comparsion. I walked though it just a fews hours after it happened and was lost. I could not recognize where I was at. I just cry every time. And to the people who say why didn't you leave? You never try to out run a tornado. You don't know what direction it is headed. The only thing you can do with 20 min notice is take cover in your closest building

[elliebearable]

unbelievable. I just don't get it.

[6195123453429878]

@elliebearable What do you mean you don't get it? Isn't it clear?

[BlackRoseXVCI]

Good job. So sad for all lost here though!

[barn524]

Trying to leave, in a car, you may not get hit by a tornado but you will get hit by debris, and even a blade of grass can kill you....

[Zhylo]

@barn524. Unless the blade of grass is traveling a supersonic speeds, such an object with very little mass wont do shit.

[yllibllik]

@Zhylo it comes from the old warnings against debris. isnt uncommon to find stalks of straw embedded into cattle hide and wood after a twister, so the story about a blade of grass killing a man was born :)

[desmar2u]

@Zhylo Actually I have seen aftermaths of tornados where a piece of straw was impaled in a telephone pole. I imagine if it can cut through solid wood it could do a fairly good job on the human body.

[sdrparks]

Well done

[bloodystarlite]

thats 21st

[TimeLapseSteve]

Well done. I had a similar idea in mind, but had no idea how to pull it off. Thanks for making this informative video.

[latinguy67]

Thanks again, for your work. I am posting your efforts on my FB for everyone to see the power of this tornado.

[singinsammi33]

This is so sad to see happen again. I live in Alabama and you know, it's so easy to say 'why don't you run?' Well, tornadoes like the one in Joplin and the ones here a few weeks ago don't happen every time we get tornadoes, these massive ones are so rare. The last storm here in AL that was similar was in 1925. The ones here 3 weeks ago were 75-80 mph in speed, you just don't have the time to run if you hear it's 5 miles away from you. And you never know where another will touch down.

[crambone20002000]

Thank you for putting this video on YouTube.

[spacestevie2]

I looked with tears at what happened to Cunningham Park. All those wonderful trees are gone. I used to go to picnics and I learned to swim at the pool there. Its probably all gone there. At least I have learned that my family is OK. God bless everyone.

[jiggy14]

Why do you have a bear with you?

[sexykitty51]

looks like a before and after picture at 2:32 of the same white vehicle, in the street view it is just to the right of the telephone pole and is the destroyed car in the video

[barn524]

@sexykitty51 I thought that too! That it was the same vehicle!

[datzfast]

for me the lesson i can take from this is this , if your given the warning of an aproching tornado ride out the storm a mile or two away. why stay to die.

[1IMABADBITCH]

@datzfast well the ones that didnt stay and was only givin a 20 min window of warning some died in the cars that were leaving so eaither way it goes leaving are staying people were harmed or killed just fyi you only get so many min of window time .. but i agree if your warned leave

[datzfast]

@1IMABADBITCH sure, some of the dead got a twenty minute warning and saw the tornado two minutes away and though this will kill me anyway better flee. my point being why did they think its a good idea to hunker down in the first place. They get it from the non stop advice given on television. at night time its a differant game but if you see a funnel GET OUT

[1IMABADBITCH]

@datzfast i agree

[datzfast]

i see piles of rubble where nothing was befor. so whatever the storm destroys it sets it down somewhere else. its no wonder nothing is recognizable

[datzfast]

you did a very good job of using tools on hand.

[bgkob]

That is unbelievable.

[3RNGR75]

Awesome comparison. Great work at least putting SOME of my mom's fears to rest. She used to live nearby there and all the news footage she had seen showed the hospital from an angle that made her believe it had wiped out complete buildings of the hospital structure. Your video proved helpful in giving her a truer perspective.